As a part of a series of events under a common name "Europe and Russia towards cooperation in the bioeconomy development" the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in cooperation with the European Forest Institute has organized the panel discussion "Regulation, business-models and human capital for bioeconomy: identification of opportunities” on the 9th of November 2017.

Sustainable Business Center of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO with our partners Forum for the Future and British Embassy Moscow initiated a competitive selection of sustainable development specialists for the programme School of System Change. Winners of the competitive selection will get a scholarship to attend an intensive course of the School of System Change in London, UK.

On July 20, Alexey Kalinin, Director of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), and Vladimir Korovkin, Head of IEMS Innovations and Digital Research, participated in the latest talk on “One Belt, One Road” initiative-related topics organized by the HKUST Business School.

The event was organized by Forum for the Future in collaboration with Sustainable Business Center of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and British Embassy in Moscow and gathered more than 40 professionals in the field of sustainability who had a chance to get insights from the panel discussion and participate at the workshop session. The event was dedicated to the questions on how in the world where challenges getting more complex and interconnected we can move swiftly towards a sustainable future, how we can discern what needs to change at a systemic level, how we might lead and implement that change and what the real chases demonstrating systemic approach to the complex problems in sustainability and related fields are.

The application process to the new programme for professionals in sustainability field in the School of system change – is open! The programme run by the Forum for the Future with support of the UK Embassy in Moscow and Sustainable Business Center of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.

On 10 November, Natalia Zaytseva , the head of the sustainable business center SKOLKOVO participated in a round table discussion « Public-private partnership in the humanitarian sphere in CIS» within the Open International Forum "25 years of CIS: mutual understanding, cooperation and development". The event gathered about 500 delegates from Russia and CIS countries and was organized by Rossotrudnichestvo.

On 25 October, Natalia Zaytseva , the head of Sustainable Business Center SKOLKOVO participated in a round table discussion «The development of environmental policy in Russia: is it a factor of implantation of innovations in industry?», in St. Petersburg, organized by the St. Petersburg International Business Association (SPIBA). The event attracted companies that have energy-efficiency programs or that participate in emission reduction projects.

On 5-8 October, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO with active participation of SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS) served as an intellectual partner for the business program of the main agrarian forum of the country –"Golden Autumn", organized by the Ministry of Agriculture of Russian Federation.